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Smith (Ph.D. Aerospace ラーメンベット 出金 時間 1991) participated in a conversation with Kathleen McElroy, a professor in UT's School of Journalism, answering questions that ranged from the realistic nature of sci-fi movies to books he is currently reading to the future of the space economy. Smith also took questions from the audience and then visited with aerospace ラーメンベット 出金 時間 student groups afterward.
Smith’s conversation was followed by a special panel on space innovation and technology in the new space era moderated by alumnus Matt Chasen (B.S. Mechanical ラーメンベット 出金 時間 1998, MBA 2004), founder and CEO of LIFT Aircraft. Panelists included Phnam Bagley, founding partner of Nonfiction and a futurist/aerospace architect; alumnus Payam Banazadeh (B.S. Aerospace ラーメンベット 出金 時間 2012), founder and CEO of Capella Space; Todd Humphreys, aerospace ラーメンベット 出金 時間 professor; and Meagan Murphy Crawford, co-founder and venture partner at SpaceFund.
The panelists weighed in on the past and current ecosystem built around space, the fundamental space research areas and what’s exciting about those, where investments in ラーメンベット 出金 時間 could be made and what life will look like in the future with this new space economy.
The final portion of the program featured two UT startup pitches by ラーメンベット 出金 時間 business founders who received inaugural Launch Texas funding to support their ventures:
- Alex Nettekoven, a Ph.D. student in the Walker Department of Mechanical ラーメンベット 出金 時間 and founder of Multi AI, a company which provides the next step in autonomy for drones, aircraft and vehicles through its cloud-based mission planning AI.
- Hailey Nichols, who received her master’s degree in aerospace ラーメンベット 出金 時間 at UT Austin this year and is founder of Locus Lock, which provides a robust software-defined radio to the market, giving end users precise heading and positioning that can be used for positioning, navigation and timing.
Both ラーメンベット 出金 時間 founders were presented with inaugural Launch Texas Commercialization Fellow Awards.
The event closed with a reception and student project showcase that included the Texas Rocket ラーメンベット 出金 時間 Lab, Texas Aerial Robots, Longhorn Rocketry and more.
Go For Launch was made possible by the McKnight Family, Antler and MITRE. View more photos from the event on Flickr:flic.kr/s/aHBqjAfvv1.
The Launch Texas program offers a ラーメンベット 出金 時間 graduate specializationfor master's and doctoral students comprised of topics in aerospace tech. It also provides students with the crucial entrepreneurial education needed to start their own ラーメンベット 出金 時間 companies. The program will produce a new class of space-tech entrepreneurs who will help grow the Texas space economy, while bringing together the aerospace community, academia and VCs. The inaugural cohort was welcomed this fall. Learn more about Launch Texas in the new issue of Longhorn Liftoff.
